Anthropic launches critical infrastructure and open-source software security initiative

Anthropic announced a critical infrastructure defense initiative, combining Claude models, its own engineers and threat research with the expertise of cybersecurity companies such as Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC, and Rockwell Automation to discover and fix security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and open-source software. Anthropic said it has provided frontier models and technical support to more than half of U.S. states and large critical infrastructure operators for scanning and patching code, or assisting with incident response and red teaming. The company also launched a voluntary scanning service for open-source software, where projects can receive regular scans for free, including proof-of-concept, explanations, and remediation suggestions; reports are returned faster but may contain inaccuracies. The long-term goal is to automate most of the classification and remediation work and to develop new security architectures and coding standards.